The Quest for the Northwest Passage: Exploring the Elusive Route Through Canada's Arctic Waters

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The Quest for the Northwest Passage: Exploring the Elusive Route Through Canada's Arctic Waters


	Format	Softcover
	Catalogue No.	978-1-55277-432-8
	Pages	152
	Language	English only
	Price	$9.95

Written by L.D. Cross.
Published by James Lorimer & Company Ltd., 2009.

Description:

The Quest for the Northwest Passage relates the early struggles of exploration, the competing claims for sovereignty, and the new challenges to Canadian security brought about by climate change.

For centuries, Europeans sought the elusive Northwest Passage that would link Europe to the Far East and China. Early visitors to Canada's northern coasts included Viking sailors and Basque whalers. Then came the prominent explorers John Cabot, Jacques Cartier, Martin Frobisher and Sir John Franklin.

Now that global warming threatens to melt much of the Arctic ice cap, conflict over the Northwest Passage and the resource riches of the Arctic is intensifying.

Table of Contents:

Prologue
Chapter 1: Early Explorers
Chapter 2: More Europeans Join the Search
Chapter 3: The Hudson Bay Diversion
Chapter 4: Searching by Land
Chapter 5: War, Peace and Exploration
Chapter 6: The Fuss over Franklin
Chapter 7: Solving the Riddle
Chapter 8: Sailing Through
Chapter 9: Who Owns What?
Chapter 10: Climate and Controversy
Epilogue
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Photo Credits
Index

L.D. Cross is an Ottawa writer and member of the Periodical Writers Association of Canada (PWAC). She has won awards of excellence for features and for editorial and technical writing in the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) Ottawa EXCEL, competitions.

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